Abstract : Poverty is a socio-economic phenomenon in which a section of society is unable to fulfill even its basic necessities of life. Literature is considered as the mirror of the society. There are many famous literatures in various languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Odia, Bengali, Telgu, Tamil etc. which describes the abject poverty of the people through their characters. It’s the greatness of king-poet Sudraka that he had brought out the burden of poverty through fictional characters in his Sanskrit play Mruchcha Katikam.